Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals Section B reading 1a-1e课件 2026-2027学年人教版英语八年级上册

Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals Section B 1a–1e · Reading 1.7.2013 Today we will read a popular science essay about bees. Look at the cover and guess: why can’t we live without bees? ‹#› Lead in Look and Answer What can you see? fruit vegetables cake honey Where are they from? Lead in Look and Answer Where are they from? They are from plants and flowers. Which animal helps the plants and flowers? Lead in Look and Answer Bees help many plants grow. They help our food grow, too. What do you know about bees? Lead in Watch the video and learn about bees. Lead in New words about bees: Look and Say honey /ˈhʌni/ n. 蜂蜜 pollen /ˈpɒlən/ n. 花粉 honeycomb /ˈhʌnikəʊm/ n. 蜂巢，蜂房 pollination /ˌpɒləˈneɪʃn/ n. 传粉，授粉 1.7.2013 Learn these seven key words before reading: bee, honey, hive, honeycomb, pollen, pollination and dance. The word pollination is the most important one for today’s text. ‹#› What will happen if bees disappear from the world? Bees and Our Lives Bees play an important role in our lives. It’s time to read! Read Think Find answers Pre-reading Look and Predict 1a Look at the title and the pictures below. Guess what the text is about. We Can’t Live Without Bees The text is about ___________. bees While-reading Fast Reading 1. Where can we probably read this passage? A. In a science magazine B. In a storybook C. In a travel guide 2. What is the main topic of this text? A. How bees make honey B. Why bees are important for our life C. Where bees build their honeycombs While-reading Fast Reading Match the main idea with each paragraph. 1. Paragraph 1   A. Bees are in danger and we need to protect them. 2. Paragraph 2   B. Bees have interesting living habits. 3. Paragraph 3   C. Bees do pollination and help plants grow. 4. Paragraph 4   D. A. Bees show the connection among living things. While-reading Fast Reading What is the structure of the passage? A B C ✓ While-reading Careful Reading Para 1: Bees show the connection among living things. 1. How does the writer start the passage? A. By asking a question. B. By giving an example. C. By making a comparison. 2. What does the underlined word “this connection” refer to? A. The relationship between people, plants and animals. B. The relationship between supermarkets and food. C. The relationship between bees and flowers. ✓ ✓ While-reading Careful Reading Part 2---Para 2& Para 3: interesting living habits& pollination Read Part 2 and complete the chart. While-reading Careful Reading Classification Items Details Importance of bees Greatest work 1. ____________ Flowers a bee visits on one trip 2. ____________ Result without bees’ work 3. About 80% of the plants ____________ Scientists’ opinion 4.__________________________________________ Interesting facts about bees How they make homes 5. They ____________ What they create to store honey 6. They create ____________ How they communicate 7. They use ____________ to tell others where and how far the food is Pollination 50 to 100 flowers cannot grow Bees are the most important animals on this planet work hard together honeycombs a dance While-reading Careful Reading Part 3--- Para 4: Bees are in danger and we need to protect them. Bees play an important part in the ecosystem of our planet. However, the number of bees is dropping, and scientists are worried. Bees need our help, and there is a lot we can do. Think about what you can do to protect one of the most amazing animals on earth. 1. What problem are bees facing now? 2. How do scientists feel about this problem? 3. What does the writer call on us to do? The number of bees is dropping. They are worried. To protect bees. While-reading Careful Reading 1b Read the text and underline the adjectives the writer uses to describe bees. We Can’t Live Without Bees Imagine you go to the supermarket in your area, but there are almost no fruits, vegetables, honey, milk, eggs, or chocolate. How would you feel? Disappointed? Angry? Sad? At this moment you realize people, plants, and animals are all connected. We need each other to live, and bees are one of the best examples of this connection. While-reading Careful Reading 1b Read the text and underline the adjectives the writer uses to describe bees. Bees are very hard-working animals, and their greatest work is pollination. On one trip, they often visit 50 to 100 flowers. As they fly from one flower to another, they take pollen with them. This action helps plants grow. In fact, without their work, about 80 per cent of the plants in the world cannot grow. For this reason, many scientists believe that bees are the most important animals on this planet. Bees are also one of the most interesting animals in the world. For example, they work hard together to make their homes. In order to store honey, they create honeycombs. Another interesting thing about bees is how they communicate. When a bee finds new food, it uses a dance to tell the others where and how far away the food is. While-reading Careful Reading 1b Read the text and underline the adjectives the writer uses to describe bees. Bees play an important part in the ecosystem of our planet. However, the number of bees is dropping, and scientists are worried. Bees need our help, and there is a lot we can do. Think about what you can do to protect one of the most amazing animals on earth. So we can see bees are hard-working, important, interesting and amazing. That’s why we should protect them. While-reading Careful Reading 1c Read again and complete the mind map with the information from the text. While-reading Careful Reading 1c Read again and complete the mind map with the information from the text. ●their greatest work: ______________ ●visit: __________________________ ●help:__________________________ ●their number is: ______________ importance problem interesting facts pollination 50 to 100 flowers on one trip plants grow dropping ①They work hard together to make their homes. ②When a bee finds new food, it uses a dance to tell the others where and how far away the food is. Bees Post-reading Further Thinking Why are bees in danger? • Destruction of Habitats • Climate Change • Use of Pesticides Post-reading Think and Discuss 1d Discuss the questions. 1. Can you give another title for the text? 2. What other interesting facts do you know about bees? 3. What do you know about the connection between humans and other insects, such as ants and butterflies? Post-reading Think and Discuss 1d Discuss the questions. 1. Can you give another title for the text? We Can’t Live Without Bees Imagine you go to the supermarket in your area, but there are almost no fruits, vegetables, honey, milk, eggs, or chocolate. How would you feel? Disappointed? Angry? Sad? At this moment you realize people, plants, and animals are all connected. We need each other to live, and bees are one of the best examples of this connection. 1. Bees Are Important to Us. 2. We Need Bees. 3. Bees Connect Us with Nature. Post-reading Think and Discuss 1d Discuss the questions. 2. What other interesting facts do you know about bees? 1. Honey bees have five eyes in total: two large compound eyes and three small simple eyes. 蜜蜂一共有五只眼睛：两只大的复眼和三只小的单眼。 2. All worker honey bees are female. 所有工蜂都是雌性的。 3. Honey bees can see ultraviolet light that humans cannot see. 蜜蜂可以看见人类看不见的紫外线。 4. A honey bee will die after it stings people, because its stinger gets stuck. 蜜蜂蜇人之后会死亡，因为它的毒刺会卡住拔不出来。 5. Honey bees can taste sugar through the taste receptors on their front feet. 蜜蜂可以通过前足上的味觉感受器品尝糖分。 Post-reading Think and Discuss 1d Discuss the questions. 3. What do you know about the connection between humans and other insects, such as ants and butterflies? Butterflies pollinate flowers like bees. Ants break down dead things and make the soil rich. They both keep the ecosystem balanced. Protecting them is protecting ourselves. 中文对照：蝴蝶像蜜蜂一样给花朵传粉。蚂蚁分解腐烂的东西，让土壤变得肥沃。它们都维持生态平衡，保护它们就是保护我们自己。 Ants break down dead plants and animals. They recycle nutrients into the soil to help plants grow. 蚂蚁分解死去的动植物，把养分归还土壤，助力植物生长。 Post-reading Think and Discuss 1e Imagine you are the writer. Write one more paragraph about bees and add it to the text. Bees play an important part in the ecosystem of our planet. However, the number of bees is dropping, and scientists are worried. Bees need our help, and there is a lot we can do. Think about what you can do to protect one of the most amazing animals on earth. Para 4: Bees are in danger and we need to protect them. Para 5: What should we write? Ways to protect bees Post-reading Further Thinking What can we do to protect bees? BEES ARE IMPORTANT Protect Bees,Protect Nature,Protect Ourselves Protecting animals and plants is protecting ourselves. ● Plant flowers. ● Use fewer chemicals. ● Protect natural habitats. We need bees for a healthy ecosystem. Bees help many plants grow. Read the passage together. One paragraph at a time. — Read aloud, then underline the key sentence of each paragraph. 1.7.2013 Now read the whole passage aloud together, one paragraph at a time. Ask students to underline the key sentence of each paragraph as they read. ‹#› Imagine you go to the supermarket in your area, but there are almost no fruits, vegetables, honey, milk, eggs, or chocolate. How would you feel? Disappointed? Angry? Sad? At this moment you realize people, plants, and animals are all connected. We need each other to live, and bees are one of the best examples of this connection. area /ˈeəriə/ n. 地区；区域 pl: areas｜ in this area disappointed adj. 失望的 v. disappoint｜adj. disappointing n. disappointment realize v. 意识到；明白 n. realization｜ realize the truth be connected with 与……有联系、相关 one of the + 最高级 + 名词复数 最……之一；谓语用单数 Post-reading Language Point 1.7.2013 引导学生读第一段，想象超市没有蔬菜水果会怎样，引出人与动植物相互联系的主题。讲解重点单词area、disappointed、realize及短语be connected with和one of句型。 ‹#› Bees are very hard-working animals, and their greatest work is pollination. On one trip, they often visit 50 to 100 flowers. As they fly from one flower to another, they take pollen with them. This action helps plants grow. In fact, without their work, about 80 per cent of the plants in the world cannot grow. For this reason, many scientists believe that bees are the most important animals on this planet. hard-working adj. 勤奋的 比较 more hard-working pollination n. 授粉 v. pollinate｜n. pollinator from one … to another 从一个到另一个 take … with sb 随身携带某物 without prep. 没有+名词或动名词 without doing sth per cent 百分之…… 数字+per cent of +n. for this reason 由于这个原因 Post-reading Language Point 1.7.2013 讲解蜜蜂授粉的重要性：一次采蜜访问50到100朵花，没有蜜蜂全球80%的植物无法生长。重点讲解hard-working、pollination、without、per cent等词汇和短语。 ‹#› Bees are also one of the most interesting animals in the world. For example, they work hard together to make their homes. In order to store honey, they create honeycombs. Another interesting thing about bees is how they communicate. When a bee finds new food, it uses a dance to tell the others where and how far away the food is. for example 例如 后加逗号，+句子 in order to do sth 为了做某事；否定 not to store v. 储存 stored｜storing communicate v. 交流 n. communication communicate with sb 和某人交流 how far away 多远 Post-reading Language Point 1.7.2013 讲解蜜蜂的有趣行为：共同筑巢、储存蜂蜜、用舞蹈传递食物位置信息。重点讲解for example、in order to、store、communicate with等表达。 ‹#› Bees play an important part in the ecosystem of our planet. However, the number of bees is dropping, and scientists are worried. Bees need our help, and there is a lot we can do. Think about what you can do to protect one of the most amazing animals on earth. play an important part in 在……发挥重要作用； =play an important role in ecosystem n. 生态系统 the number of ……的数量 谓语单数 a number of 许多，谓语复数 drop v. 下降；dropped protect v. 保护； protection n. protect sb from … 保护……免受…… amazing adj. 令人惊奇的 v. amaze｜adj. amazed Post-reading Language Point 1.7.2013 总结蜜蜂在生态系统中的重要作用，以及蜜蜂数量下降的现状。重点讲解play an important part in、the number of与a number of的区别、protect和amazing的用法，引导学生思考如何保护蜜蜂。 ‹#› THE END! Love nature, protect wildlife, and live in harmony. 1.7.2013 Wrap up the lesson. We cannot live without bees, and we cannot live without plants and animals. Love nature, protect wildlife, and live in harmony. ‹#› $